Salle Érard
The salle Érard () is a music venue located in Paris, 13 rue du Mail in the
2nd arrondissement of Paris
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.
It is part of the
hôtel particulier
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which belonged, from the 18th century, to the family of piano, harp and harpsichord manufacturers.
Small in size, but well isolated from the noises of the city, enjoying good acoustics, it is more particularly adapted to
chamber music
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.
During the 19th and the beginning of the 20th, it was the place of
première
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History
R ...
s and debuts noted for both compositions and for interpreters, among which:
Érik Satie (orchestrations of his
Gymnopédies by
Claude Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...
),
Jacques Ibert, ''les histoires'' (ten pieces for piano) (1923),
Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 186123 February 1931) was an Australian operatic lyric coloratura soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early twentieth century, and was the f ...
,
Ricardo Viñes,
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...
, ''
Miroirs
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'' (1906), ''
Menuet antique'' (1892), ''
Histoires naturelles'' with
Jane Bathori (1907), ''
Sonate pour violon et piano'' (1927), ''
Trois poèmes de Mallarmé'' (1914),
Camille Saint-Saens (1860).,
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; r 1859– 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's Prime Minister of Poland, prime minister and foreign minister durin ...
(1888),
Claude Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...
, '' Triptyque'' ''
Estampes'' (1904), ''
Le Promenoir des deux amants'' (1911),
Alexander Scriabin
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(1896),
Joseph Jongen
Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.
Biography
Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. He was the elder brother of Léon Jonge ...
,
André Caplet
André Caplet (23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy and completed the orchestration of several of Debussy's compositions as well as arrangements of severa ...
, ''
Conte fantastique
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'' with
Micheline Kahn as the harpist, (1923)
Vladimir de Pachmann (1882),
Charles Valentin Alkan (1837) and (1880),
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodie, songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among th ...
,
Reynaldo Hahn
Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – ''mélodies'' – of which he wrote more than 100.
Hahn was born ...
, pianist
Édouard Risler (1908),
Ernest Chausson, ''
Viviane'' (1883),
César Franck
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.
He was born in Liège (which at the time of h ...
, ''
Le Chasseur maudit'' (1883),
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' is "more even ...
, ''
Le Cahier romand'' (1924),
Olivier Messiaen
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, ''
Huit préludes'' (1930),
Maurice Delage, ''
Sept haï-kaïs
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'' (1925),
''
Quatre poèmes hindous'' (1914),
Francis Planté,
Stéphan Elmas
Stéphan Elmas (; 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an Armenians, Armenian composer, pianist and teacher.
Life
Elmas was born into a family of wealthy entrepreneurs in Smyrna (now İzmir), a city in the Ottoman Empire. It was soon discovered that ...
ou
Youra Guller.
Beethoven Sonata No. 29 in Bb Major "Hammerklavier" with Franz Liszt at the piano.
Before the construction of the
Maison de la Radio
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(1963), the hall served as a recording studio for the
Radiodiffusion française.
Nowadays, only the salon sees the organization of concerts, the volumes of the proper room having been reconverted (the volume of spaces is suggested by the organization of the roofs as well as the old entrance facade at No. 11 rue Paul Lelong - Paris 02). Nevertheless, it remains prized for its acoustics and its past charged with both musical and artistic history.
Salle Érard in London
The Salle Erard opened its London piano gallery and recital hall on 11 July 1894 on Great Marlborough Street, with a performance by Polish pianist,
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (; r 1859– 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's Prime Minister of Poland, prime minister and foreign minister durin ...
. The recital hall could accommodate an audience of 300 people. The stained glass windows featured portraits of
Saint-Saëns,
Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...
,
Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most pro ...
,
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic music, Romantic era, she exerted her influence o ...
,
Rubinstein,
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...
,
Chopin,
Sigismond Thalberg
Sigismond Thalberg (8 January 1812 – 27 April 1871) was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
Family
Thalberg was born in Pâquis near Geneva on 8 January 1812. Thalberg asserted that he ...
and
Balfe.
See also
*
Société Nationale de Musique
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References
External links
Salle Érardon YouTube (promotion)
''La Salle Érard a besoin de nous''La Salle Érardon
France Musique
France Musique () is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France. It is devoted to the broadcasting of music, both live and recorded, with particular emphasis on classical music and jazz.
History
The channel was lau ...
La Salle Érard, panoramaon abcsalles.com
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Buildings and structures in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris
Music venues in Paris
Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France